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Slack Scout

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Date Published
Author
Sarah Chieng, Alex Phan
Word Count
804
Company Posts That Month
2
Language
English
Hacker News Points
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No
Summary

The tutorial covers the process of creating a Slack Scout bot that sends notifications whenever specific keywords are mentioned on Twitter, Hacker News, or Reddit. The project uses Browserbase and Val Town to access and scrape website posts, write scheduled functions and APIs, send automated Slack messages via webhooks, and store persistent data in a SQLite database. The tutorial guides users through the process of creating scripts for each platform, including Reddit, Hacker News, and Twitter, as well as a cron function to run these scripts every hour, sending notifications when new content is found.

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